管理类联考英语真题及答案.docx

1、管理类联考英语真题及答案启用前绝密2013 年全国硕士研究生入学一致考试管理类专业硕士学位联考英语二考生注意事项1.考生一定严格恪守各项考场规则。2.答题前，考生应将答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚，并与准考据上的一致。3.答案一定按要求填涂或写在指定的答题卡上。（1 ） 英语应用、阅读理解 A 部分的答案填涂在答题卡上，阅读理解 B 部分、英译汉的答案和作文的答案写在答题纸上。（2 ） 填涂部分应当依据答题卡上的要求用 2B 铅笔达成。如要变动，一定用橡皮擦洁净。书写部分（英译汉的答案和作文） 一定用蓝（黑）色笔迹钢笔、 圆珠笔或署名笔在答题卡上作答。4.答题

2、卡禁止折叠。考试结束后，将答题卡和答题纸一同放入原试卷袋中，试卷交给监考人，禁止在档案袋上填写任何信息。2013年全国硕士研究生入学一致考试管理类专业硕士学位联考英语试卷Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following texts. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Given the advantages of electronic money, you might th

3、ink that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically. _1_ a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been _2_ for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that

4、electronic means of payment would soon revolutionize the very _3_ of money itself, only to _4_ itself several years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society been so _5_ in coming?Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factor

5、s work _6_ the disappearance of the paper system. First, it is very _7_ to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunication networks necessary to make electronic money the _8_ form of payment Second, paper checks have the advantage that they _9_ receipts, something that many consumers are unw

6、illing to _10_ . Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of float - it takes several days _11_ a check is cashed and funds are _12_ from the issuers account, which means that the writer of the check can cam interest on the funds in the meantime. _13_ electronic payments arc immed

7、iate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.Fourth, electronic means of payment may _14_ security and privacy concerns. We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information _15_ there. The fact that this is not an _16_ occur

8、rence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and _17_ from someone elses accounts. The _18_ of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a new field of computer science is developing to _19_ security issues. A further concern is that the use o

9、f electronic means of payment leaves an electronic _20_ that contains a large amount of personal data. There are concerns that government, employers, and marketers might be able to access these data, thereby violating our privacy.1. AHowever BMoreoverCThereforeDOtherwise2. AoffBbackCoverDaround3. Ap

10、owerBconceptChistoryDrole4. ArewardBresistCresumeDreverse5.A silentB suddenCslowDsteady6. AforBagainstCwithDon7.A imaginativeB expensiveCsensitiveDproductive8.A similarB originalCtemporaryDdominant9.A collectB provideCcopyDprint10. A give upB take overC bring backD pass down11. A beforeB afterCsince

11、Dwhen12.A keptB borrowedC releasedDwithdrawn13. AUnlessBUntilCBecauseDThough14. AhideBexpressCraiseDease15.A analyzedB sharedCstoredDdisplayed16.A unsafeB unnaturalCuncommonDunclear17.A stealB chooseCbenefitDreturn18.A considerationB preventionCmanipulationDjustification19.A cope withB fight against

12、C adapt toD call for20.A chunkB chipCpathDtrailSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40points)Text 1In an essay entitled “ Making It in America ” , the autho

13、r Adam Davidson relates a joke fromcotton about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill only two employees today, ” a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines. ”Davidson s article is one of a number of pieces tha

14、t have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines

15、 or foreign worker.In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an averagelifestyle ,But ,today ,average is officially over. Being average just won t earn you whcan t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above averagecheap foreign labor,

16、cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra-their unique value contribution that makes them stand out inwhatever is their field of employment.Yes, new technology has been eating jobs forever, and always will. But there s beeaccelera

17、tion. As Davidson notes, ” In the 10 years ending in 2009, U.S. factories shed workers sofast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years; roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs-about 6 million in total -disappeared.There will always be changed-new jobs, new products, n

18、ew services. But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T. revolution, the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over, there are many things we need to do t

19、o supportstemployment, but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I. Bill for the 21 century that ensures that every American has access to poet-high school education.21.The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate_Athe impact of technological advancesBthe alleviation of job pr

20、essureCthe shrinkage of textile millsDthe decline of middle-class incomes22.According to Paragraph 3, to be a successful employee, one has to_Awork on cheap softwareBask for a moderate salaryCadopt an average lifestyleDcontribute something unique23.The quotation in Paragraph 4 explains that _Agains

21、of technology have been erasedBjob opportunities are disappearing at a high speedCfactories are making much less money than beforeDnew jobs and services have been offered24.According to the author, to reduce unemployment, the most important is_Ato accelerate the I.T. revolutionBto ensure more educat

22、ion for peopleCro advance economic globalizationDto pass more bills in the 21st century25.Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the text?ANew Law Takes EffectBTechnology Goes CheapCAverage Is OverDRecession Is BadText 2A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic i

23、nclued settlers and sojourners. Alongwith the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had nointention to stay, and 7millin people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of allItalian immigrants, for exanmle, eventually returned to Italy for go

24、od. They even had an affectionatenickname, “ uccelli di passaggio, ” birds of passage.Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide nemcomers into two categories:legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or our broken immigrantionsystem and the long politica

25、l paralysis over how to fix it. We don t need more categorieneed to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strick definitions of legaland illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the grayareas. We might then begin to solve o

26、ur immigration challenges.Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aidesand physicists are among today s birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a globaleconomy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas .They prefer to come and go as o

27、pportunity calls them , They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselv

28、es to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle .Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wro

29、ng means opening up themiddle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes. Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.26.“ Birds of passage ” refers to those who_Aimmigrate across the Atlantic.Bleave their

30、home countries for good.Cstay in a foregin temporaily.Dfind permanent jobs overseas.27.It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration stystem in the US_Aneeds new immigrant categories.Bhas loosened control over immigrants.Cshould be adopted to meet challenges.Dhas been fixeed via political means.28. According to the author, today s birds of passage want_Af